Signed zeros: is this a bug?

Paul Rubin http
Sun Mar 11 17:22:56 EDT 2007


Tim Peters <tim.one at comcast.net> writes:
> 2.5 introduced a new front end and more ambitious constant-folding, and 
> I expect the bug showed up again due to one of those.

I hope it does get fixed.  Not having referential transparency in a
basic math function like atan2 is pretty disturbing in a modern
computer language.



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